Glad you got it working, strace helps me solve lots of issues I cause! What's the "extension thing" ??
> Thanks, man. That led me to a solution alright, which I am ashamed to > admit was 100% my own stupidity. I forgot to rebuild eAccelerator for > the new version, and that's what was causing it to die. > > > Unfortunately, that means the extension thing remains a problem. Lame > :( > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamie Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:42 AM > To: php-install@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Can't install PHP > 5.2.0 > > My approach to work out what's killing Apache on this would be to strace > httpd and see at what point it throws it's toys out of the pram. > > You should be able to use something like > > strace -f /your/apache/path/bin/apachectl start > > and the last few lines (or quite a few lines!) should give you the > system > call that killed the process. You may need to capture the output with > something like > > strace -f /your/apache/path/bin/apachectl start >/tmp/strace.txt 2>&1 > > If you're new to strace and the output means nothing to you feel free to > throw me a copy. > > cheers > > Jamie > >> On Mar 26, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Doug Tabacco wrote: >>> Hi there! >>> >>> So right now I'm running PHP 5.2.0. I'd very much like to move up to >>> 5.2.5 to take advantage of fixes and so forth, but I'm having some >>> trouble. When I try to 'make install' any version of PHP newer than >>> 5.2.0, Apache will die quietly on startup, without logging any > errors, >>> no matter how verbose I set logging. If I then re-'make install' >>> 5.2.0, >>> it works great again. I can recompile 5.2.0 with different options, >>> different versions of libraries, or pretty much anything and it keeps >>> working. >>> >>> Obviously, I can't provide much in the way of debug output from >>> apache, >>> but I'll try to give some basic info here. If anyone has ideas or >>> wants >>> to see longer stuff like configure output, just let me know. >>> >>> The OS: Redhat EL4 >>> The Apache: Apache/2.0.52 (from RHN RPMs) >>> The uname -a: Linux telltalegames 2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jan > 18 >>> 05:00:58 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux >>> Configure options: >>> ./configure --with-gd --enable-magic-quotes --with-pear --with-regex >>> --with-zlib-dir=/usr/include --with-mysql=/usr/lib/mysql >>> --with-pgsql=/usr/lib/pgsql --disable-url-fopen-wrapper >>> --with-config-file-path=/ --with-gettext > --with-imap=/usr/include/imap >>> --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl >>> --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/include/freetype2 --enable-gd-native- >>> ttf >>> --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs >>> --with-mcrypt=/usr/local/lib/ --with-curl >>> >>> >>> No errors reported during ./configure or make. I've tried 'make >>> clean' >>> just to be sure, and as for 'make test', there's some bonus story to >>> tell (a possible clue)... >>> >>> On versions > 5.2.0, adding the --with-config-file-path=/etc option >>> seems to break something. When that option is included, 'make test' >>> does this: >>> >>> --------------- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] php-5.2.5]# make test >>> >>> Build complete. >>> Don't forget to run 'make test'. >>> >>> make: [test] Error 254 (ignored) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] php-5.2.5]# >>> --------------- >>> >>> If I then clean and recompile without that option, make test works >>> normally. Either way, though, the same thing happens when I install >>> the >>> results. That error being caused by such a (seemingly) benign option >>> seems pretty suspicious, though. >>> >>> >>> >> >> I may have found another symptom, if it's helpful at all. I (kind of) >> can't install dynamic modules, even in 5.2.0. >> >> If I add the extension=ssh2.so (or whatever) line to /etc/php.ini it >> works in the CLI binary, but doesn't show up in phpinfo() through >> apache. I ran "php -i" at the command line and confirmed that both >> are using /etc/php.ini and the same extensions directory. No errors >> are getting logged during Apache startup, the modules just aren't > there. >> >> >> > > > -- > This message was transmitted on 100% recycled electrons > > > > -- This message was transmitted on 100% recycled electrons
